We hired a plasterer to re-do 1 wall of our front room. It is the gable end wall of our end terrace. We had the bottom half of the plaster knocked\drilled off and re filled and had the entire wall re-skimmed. We noticed how the plaster was drying oddly at the bottom half, leaving strange streaky marks only at the bottom half, the wall appeared to be oozing salt.
Then we waited 3 weeks for it to dry (plaster had gone pale brown), my wife painted the wall with its 1st coat then we noticed this...
We have had the plasterer to come round and attempt to talk his way out of it by blaming damp coming in from the outside with little holes in the wall all down the side but our bricks and cement is fine and the other walls on in the inside are fine.
Then he said we painted it to early, then he said its damp in the cavity but we don't have a cavity because our house was built in 1850s and is therefore solid brick.
We need a quick answer because the plasterer has got someone whom HE knows is a SPECIALIST in damp to come round today and I'm refusing to be fobbed off
My opinion is that its been to skimmed to thin.[/img]
Then we waited 3 weeks for it to dry (plaster had gone pale brown), my wife painted the wall with its 1st coat then we noticed this...
We have had the plasterer to come round and attempt to talk his way out of it by blaming damp coming in from the outside with little holes in the wall all down the side but our bricks and cement is fine and the other walls on in the inside are fine.
Then he said we painted it to early, then he said its damp in the cavity but we don't have a cavity because our house was built in 1850s and is therefore solid brick.
We need a quick answer because the plasterer has got someone whom HE knows is a SPECIALIST in damp to come round today and I'm refusing to be fobbed off
My opinion is that its been to skimmed to thin.[/img]